Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade/Ex Machina Arcade - is the races through the deserted prairies and canyons of northern America, infected by a fatal virus. You are to find the reasons of the global catastrophe described in the original game Hard Truck: Apocalypse.

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Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade/Ex Machina Arcade - is the races through the deserted prairies and canyons of northern America, infected by a fatal virus. You are to find the reasons of the global catastrophe described in the original game Hard Truck: Apocalypse. The game is a standalone project, with the gameplay that's different from the original game. INCLUDED IN EX MACHINA GOLD EDITION

HTA Arcade is an attempt to dumb down the original Hard Truck Apocalypse (aka Ex Machina) into an arcade shoot-em-up. However, it does not support controller, and the keyboard/ mouse controls are horrible. The game is also extremely unbalanced, and there's NEVER enough heal. The in-game purchases to improve your trucks are EXTREMELY expensive, and lack of savepoints or checkpoints make the entire game extremely frustrating. You're much better off playing the actual HTA, not the arcade game.

This game is significantly unlike the other two HTA games on steam. It is much narrower in scope and to me, much less interesting. I like the other two games enough to tolerate the bugs and mayhem but this one is just not recommendable.

This game is disappointing, it's much buggier than the first two, and is more of a spin-off. Once you go through the hassle of getting it to start, you'll find you weren't missing out on anything. It has a small selection of rather pointless missions and most of the freedom found in the previous games is gone. It for some reason only supports 4:3 resolutions despite the previous games supporting widescreen. Also the cards do not work for this one, so no farming here either.

This game locked up my system on the first attempt to load, and only successfully started after a second attempt. I really do not care for the way this game runs, and I would advice people to hold off until the bugs are worked out.

BTW, I could never get HTA Ex Machina to load, and because I haven't played it for a minimum of five minutes, I cannot write a review of trhe game.

If I could get the program to start, I might be able to review it. But it fails to launch with the error "App already running". Am trying to trouble shoot, but the Steam error corrections are not confidence inspiring. When I played the game before, it had troubles with XP as well and would not start. In its current form, I cannot recomment this game.